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Alcoholics Anonymous has no quarrel with medicine, psychiatry, or religion. We have great respect for the methods of each. And we are glad for any success they may have had with alcoholics. We are desirous always of cooperating with them in every way. The more doctors, the more psychiatrists, the more clergy and rabbis we […]
Each day a new Beginning <!--080225-->
Though we be sick and tired and faint and worn–Lo, all things can be borne! —Elizabeth Chase Akers— What bothered us most a year ago? A month ago? Even a week ago? It’s probably that whatever it was, we were obsessed with it, certain that our futures were ruined, that there was no reasonable solution. […]
Each day a new Beginning <!--080125-->
The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirit, till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff. —Annie Dillard— Our progress today, and certainly our serenity, is enhanced by our willingness to accept all that we are blessed with today. Not only to accept, […]
Daily Reflections <!--080125-->
LIVING IT The spiritual life is not a theory. We have to live it. ALCOHOLIC ANONYMOUS , p. 83 When new in the program, I couldn’t comprehend living the spiritual aspect of the program, but now that I’m sober, I can’t comprehend living without it. Spirituality was what I had been seeking. God, as I […]
Promise of a new Day <!--080125-->
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. —Hellen Keller— We can make of our experiences what we choose. We can focus on the traffic snarls while traveling to work, or we can smile because we have a job to go to and a car to carry us there. We can […]
Keep it Simple <!--080125-->
Made a list of all persons we had harmed . . . —First half of Step Eight— By the time we get to Step Eight, we’re ready to work on our relationships. We start by making a list of all persons we’ve harmed. We look at where we have been at fault. We own our […]
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The Alcoholics Anonymous program has borrowed from medicine, psychiatry, and religion. It has taken from these what it wanted and combined them into the program which it considers best suited to the alcoholic mind and which will best help the alcoholic to recover. The results have been very satisfactory. We do not try to improve […]
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We are whole beings. We know this somewhere in a part of ourselves that feels like memory. —Susan Griffin— When we study biology, we learn that in every cell of our bodies we carry our whole genetic program, the complex set of chemical instructions for building us: our skeleton, skin, hair, eyes, muscles, brain, genitals, […]
Keep it Simple <!--073125-->
Less is more. —Mies Vander Rohe— Our program is simple. It has four equal parts: sobriety, fellowship, service, and faith. Sobriety means we don’t use alcohol or drugs any more. Fellowship means we let people into our lives. We work at having a life that’s rich with friends. Service means we help when we see […]
Daily Reflections <!--073125-->
A PRAYER FOR ALL SEASONS God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change. Courage to change the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference. TWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 125 The power of this prayer is overwhelming in that its simple beauty parallels the A.A. Fellowship. There […]